Product Manager - Data Supply Health and Traffic

The role

You will establish and lead a new product area focused on data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency. You will define how Plaid allocates provider capacity, scales traffic, and manages the economics of paid data access.

What you will do

• Define and own Plaid's strategy and roadmap for data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency.
• Build and prioritize traffic-optimization initiatives.
• Serve as the bridge between data-provider relationship teams and internal product teams.
• Partner with engineering and data teams to understand system behavior and evaluate technical trade-offs.
• Establish and track core traffic and cost metrics to identify risks and measure progress.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles.
• Analytical rigor: comfortable working with data, cost models, and operational metrics.
• Deep technical fluency in large-scale systems, load management, API platforms, and machine-learning models.
• Platform and systems thinking mindset.
• Leadership, stakeholder influence, and communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid builds tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create products. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.